1982

Velvet Moon, a short-lived band (too short-lived for our taste).  Courtesy of Bob Spieler, on guitar in this photo.  The guest drummer is Bill Boichel, today of Copacetic Comics.
Windowpane arrived for this Election Day gig, found that the place couldn't open until the polls closed, and waited outside.  Photo by Alena Loiselle courtesy of Kurt Hoffman, lying on the sidewalk.  The others are, from left to right, Bob Michael, soundman Sam David, Doug Heaps, and Bob Loiselle.  Scroll down for another photo from this evening.

Created by Paul Bucciarelli, who also provided this for the site.

1/2/82 - Le Slick
1/4/82 - Rastafari
1/6/82 - Jones Band * The Freeze
1/7/82 - Force Field
1/8/82 – F-Models
1/9/82 – Cardboards * Radio Hanoi
1/13/82 - Travesty
1/15/82 – Boystown (listen) * The Wake
1/16/82 – Carsickness
1/19/82 - The Clouds
1/20/82 - M.G. Explosion
1/21/82 - Billy X & the Offenders
1/22/82 - The Five * Kitsch
1/23/82 - Cardboards
1/26/82 - Force Field
1/28/82 - The Back Beats
1/29/82 - Charlie Norml
1/30/82 - The Wake * Radio Hanoi

2/3/82 - The Clouds
2/4/82 - City Child
2/5/82 - Radio Hanoi * Gag
2/6/82 - Billy X & the Offenders
2/10/82 - The Clouds
2/11/82 - Gag
2/12/82 - F-Models (listen)
2/13/82 – Boystown * Radio Hanoi (listen)
2/17/82 - Kitsch
2/18/82 - Sonny Vincent & the Extremes * The Features
2/19/82 - The Express * The Features
2/20/82 - The Features * Boystown
2/26/82 - Cardboards
2/27/82 – Carsickness * Gag

3/3/82 - City Child
3/4/82 - Young Lust
3/5/82 - Carsickness
3/6/82 - The Daughters * The Five (read)
3/11/82 - The Drones
3/12/82 - The Features * Billy X & the Offenders
3/13/82 – Boystown * The Features
3/16/82 - U.K Subs * Anti-Nowhere League
3/17/82 - Carsickness
3/18/82 - Carsickness
3/19/82 – Polyrock * Comateens * Boystown
3/20/82 - Hunger Project * The Features
3/24/82 - The Drones
3/26/82 - The Features
3/27/82 – Cardboards

4/1/82 - Young Lust
4/2/82 - Icarian
4/3/82 – Carsickness * The Features
4/9/82 - No Smokin'
4/10/82 – Cardboards * Kitsch
4/14/82 - WYEP benefit with 5 unnamed bands
4/16/82 – Boystown * Zippatones
4/17/82 – Carsickness * Pinkerpons
4/21/82 - Kitsch
4/22/82 - Snake Finger
4/23/82 - Overlord * Arch Angels
4/24/82 - Velvet Moon * The Imprints
4/28/82 - The Embarassment
4/30/82 - Bush Tetras * The Imprints

5/1/82 - Bush Tetras * Prototype
5/5/82 - Prototype * Carsickness
5/6/82 - Black Flag
5/7/82 – Boystown * Cardboards
5/8/82 – Lifers * The Imprints
5/14/82 – Prototype * Ground Zero
5/15/82 - Boystown * The Features
5/19/82 - Night Owl
5/21/82 - Lou Miami * Boystown
5/22/82 - The Features * Velvet Moon
5/27/82 - S K Connection
5/28/82 - The Imprints * Suburban Death Row
5/29/82 - The Features * Velvet Moon

6/4/82 - Ground Zero * Zippatones
6/5/82 - Pauline & the Perils
6/8/82 - Black Flag * Saccharine Trust
6/9/82 - Black Flag * Saccharine Trust
6/10/82 - Icarian
6/11/82 - F-Models (set list) * The Features
6/12/82 - Tripod Jimmie * Carsickness
6/17/82 - The Imprints * Cardboards
6/18/82 - The Features
6/19/82 - Dancing Cigarettes
6/22/82 - Agent Orange * Ground Zero
6/23/82 - Bugs
6/25/82 - The Features
6/26/82 - Peter Dayton * The Imprints
6/28/82 - The Dickies * The Imprints

7/2/82 - George Gee & His Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra
7/3/82 - PGH "Rock n Roll"
7/9/82 - Boystown * The Imprints
7/10/82 - Karian
7/14/82 - George Gee & His Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra
7/15/82 - Rockman Gini Band
7/16/82 - The Wake * Ground Zero
7/17/82 - Toy Rockets * The Twins * Stick Against Stone
7/23/82 - Street Walker
7/24/82 - New Residentials * AR&R * Rock Man Gim Band
7/30/82 - The Imprints
7/31/82 - The Wake * Erector Set

8/6/82 - Jim Buckley Band * Moon Doggers
8/7/82 - Atlantis
8/13/82 - Boystown
8/14/82 - David Iglar
8/18/82 - Carsickness
8/19/82 - Boystown
8/20/82 - F-Models * Celebrity Sex
8/21/82 - PGH "Rock n Roll"
8/27/82 - Mission of Burma * The Five
8/28/82 – Atlantis * Armageddon

9/1/82 - The Wake * Celebrity Sex
9/3/82 - Viceroys
9/7/82 - Vice Squad
9/9/82 – Boystown * Nimrods
9/10/82 - The Imprints
9/11/82 - The Wake * Tripod Jimmie
9/17/82 – Boystown * The Abiders
9/18/82 - The Bosch * The Wake * The Imprints
9/24/82 – Boystown * Riprock
9/25/82 - The Wake * Modern Convenience

10/1/82 - Paper Faces * The Wake
10/2/82 - F-Models * Ground Zero
10/8/82 – Boystown * The Abiders
10/9/82 - Dark Horse * City Child
10/15/82 - The Wake * Modern Convenience
10/16/82 - The Dendrites
10/20/82 - The Wake
10/22/82 - Jim Buckley Band
10/23/82 - The Five
10/29/82 - D.O.A.
10/30/82 - The Wake

11/2/82 - Windowpane
11/5/82 - Boystown
11/6/82 - The Killers * The Imprints
11/12/82 - The Wipers * The Five
11/13/82 - The Shunts * Bag People
11/17/82 - Meat Puppets
11/19/82 - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
11/20/82 - The Pin-Ups
11/26/82 - The Wake * Adults
11/27/82 - Beg * Ground Zero

12/4/82 - The Models * Sweet Olive
12/9/82 - The Circle Jerks
12/10/82 - Sweet Olive * The Abiders
12/17/82 - The Abiders * Ezy Rider
12/18/82 - The Five
12/22/82 - The Abiders * Easter Island
12/23/82 - Sweet Olive * The Imprints
12/31/82 - The Wake

List last updated 6/24/23

 
Windowpane rocks out an attentive audience at the Electric Banana on November 2, 1982.  The band earned $12 for a night's work.  Johnny Banana's favorite song was the 12-minute "Sam's Jam."  That's a dollar a minute for his favorite song.  Photo by Alena Loiselle courtesy of Kurt Hoffman.
 

Johnny Thunders posters and newspaper ads courtesy of Mike Psyche


Thunders famously failed to show for this gig.
 
This was one great show.

 

 


Cool buttons from Joe's personal collection.

1982 was a great year for concerts.  The Police and Bow Wow Wow played in April but there was nothing like Elvis Costello and the Clash on consecutive nights in August!  Talk Talk opened up for Costello.  Opening for the Clash was a group of soul/funk singers (forgot their name) that was rudely booed off the stage for daring to present something other than punk.  Nine days later, Steel Pulse appeared with Stick Against Stone opening.  Amazingly, the Clash returned on October 16 to perform at CMU with the Core opening.  Can't find that ticket stub anywhere!  Tickets from Joe's personal collection.

Elvis Costello at the Stanley Theater - August 17 Concert Reviews: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press.

The Clash at the Stanley Theater - August 18 Concert Review: Pittsburgh Press